Channel Letters in Havre de Grace, MD

Channel letters are individually fabricated, illuminated letters mounted to your building facade — the sign most people picture when they picture a professional storefront. We build every set in-house at our Havre de Grace shop from aluminum returns and acrylic faces, rather than outsourcing to a wholesale fabricator like many sign companies do. Our licensed electricians wire and connect every illuminated sign we install, and our in-house permit department handles the applications and variances that hold up projects elsewhere — so you're working with one company from design through installation. We fabricate front-lit, back-lit (halo), and combination channel letters in any font, size, or color your brand needs.

Located at 718 Girard St, we're part of this community — we've installed channel letters, monument signs, and LED displays for businesses along Washington Street, the waterfront district near Tydings Memorial Park, and the Route 40 commercial corridor for more than 75 years. Businesses from the Tidewater Grille to retailers near the Havre de Grace Decoy Museum and the Susquehanna Museum at Lock House have relied on Pollitt for signage. The town's mix of waterfront tourism, Main Street retail, and highway commercial traffic means signs must perform in very different environments — we design for all of them, and we know which sign types earn approval in each zone.

All channel letters installations in Havre de Grace require sign permits through the Harford County Department of Planning and Zoning. As a Harford County sign company with over seven decades of permitting experience, our dedicated permit department handles the application, setback compliance review, and any variance requests. Harford County routes sign permit applications through its Planning and Zoning office, and most standard applications are reviewed within 2–4 weeks of submission. Illuminated signs and any request that exceeds the standard height, size, or setback limits for the property's zoning district typically require a variance hearing before the county's Board of Appeals. You focus on your business; we handle the paperwork.

Havre de Grace's waterfront tourism economy shapes how we approach channel letters here. Tourist foot traffic moves at a walking pace rather than highway speed, so channel letters here can use smaller, more decorative letterforms and finishes — aluminum returns with a marine-grade finish — that read well up close and hold up to salt air off the water.